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Update to Kingdom: New Lands will add 6th Island

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Update: The free update adding sixth island – Skull Island – just released today. Enter at your own risk though, as Raw Fury warns that Skull Island is brutally difficult. (ATVG is still trying to leave the first island!)

Original Story: Kingdom: New Lands just turned two years old, with publisher Raw Fury celebrating by sending out an email yesterday detailing a pretty big update currently being worked on, and after reaching out we received confirmation that the update is also coming to Apple TV.

Excellent.

Raw Fury describes Kingdom as “a small game about royalty stuck to horses and throwing coins at people.” While it’s hard to think of a better way to sum up this beautiful game in fewer words, that elevator pitch doesn’t give any indication of the level of depth that Kingdom hides within its simple gameplay mechanics.

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The Ava Storyline – Upcoming DLC for Space Marshals 2 Announced

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While punching out our story on Beach Buggy Racing’s 4 player split screen update earlier today, we received an email from studio Pixelbite teasing upcoming DLC for its quality action/stealth shooter – Space Marshals 2.

So ATVG is back at the keys, bathing in the glow of a warm iMac’s monitor to bring you some more good news to brighten your weekend.

Hit the page 2 button for the details.

Update to Beach Buggy Racing Brings 4 Player Split Screen

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Ok folks, we need to talk about Beach Buggy Racing.

Here at ATVG, we feel we’ve neglected this excellent kart racer from Vector Unit for far too long. We’ve written extensively about the studio’s Riptide GP: Renegade, posting a full review, and including it in our various housekeeping lists, such as last year’s best of, and also this recent collection of PS4 and Xbox One games that you can play on the Apple TV platform.

A while back ATVG also took a deep dive into Vector Unit’s Mousebot, a fun vehicle-based 3D platformer (with Easter eggs).

Beach Buggy Racing however, somehow slipped through our net. We’ve mentioned it in passing, but have never really given it the love it deserves. If Apple TV could only have one good example of every classic gaming genre, we’d be more than happy for Beach Buggy Racing to carry the torch for kart racing.

And to help that torch shine even brighter, yesterday saw an update that brought local 4 player split screen. Now that’s kart racing.

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5 More Upcoming Apple TV Games We’re Excited About

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Okay, it’s time to get our ducks in a row again. It’s been a while.

Six months ago we gathered together six upcoming Apple TV games that we’ve been following and posting stories about, and put them into a handy list for easy reference. Crossing them off gradually as they get released, there are still four games on that list to come. (And a fifth…possibly…maybe…hopefully game that may never see Apple TV, but ATVG is a glass half full kind of site so fingers crossed and so on)

Six months down the track, ATVG continues to scour the internet and pester developers for news of more games to look forward to on the platform, and thought it’s about time we put together another list for your convenience. You’ll get a trailer to watch, links to the original articles, and a quick blurb for each title.

Right. Let’s do this.

Hit the page 2 button below for a sneak peak over the horizon.

Action RPG Runic Rampage – Plugging a Hole in Apple TV’s Catalogue

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Update: Studio Electrocosmos have announced a release date for Runic Rampage – November 2nd. Not long!

Original Story: Action RPGs are thin on the ground in the Apple TV gaming catalogue.

Dungeon Hunter 5 from Gameloft brings bite-size Diablo-like missions which are fun – and the game has nice production values – but you can’t help but want those missions to extend into a larger environment, giving you room to explore and swing those weapons.

Dungeon Time from Mooff Games is positioned as more of a twin-stick shooter, although it does boast RPG flavours brought to the table courtesy of upgradeable abilities and characters.

Where the Apple TV gaming catalogue is lacking is fully-featured dungeon crawlers with loot, spells, weapons, armour, and raging dwarves.

Can German studio Electrocosmos help plug the hole with its upcoming Runic Rampage?

Hack’n’slash the page 2 button below for more.

Moon Raider: Gameplay Videos Reveal Details of Upcoming Sci-Fi Advenure

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We first posted about Moon Raider back in March, and thought it’s high time we checked back in to bring word on its progress. The studio behind the upcoming pixel art action platformer – Retro Phone Games – has been very open on the game’s progress in recent months, dropping heaps of videos that reveal plenty of interesting aspects of the game.

Mash the page 2 button below, and you’ll find a collection of half a dozen bite-size chunks of gameplay that show a very promising work in progress.

Review: Yuri – Blue Is The Warmest Colour

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Update (2 June 2019): The final levels promised at the end of Fingerlab’s excellent little 2D platormer have arrived. The conclusion of Yuri’s story can now be enjoyed courtesy of a free update this week which added 16 new levels. Happy days.

“Thanks for your patience,” Fingerlab writes in its patch notes. “It took awhile, but we needed the time to create a completely new environment: Yuri’s mysterious house, full of surprises and challenges.”

Fingerlab has also “reworked some levels and remastered the soundtrack” in order to give players an “even more immersive experience.”

Just in time for the weekend too.

Original Story: French studio Fingerlab have been bringing the touchscreens of our iPhones and iPads to life in innovative ways for years. Games such as Multiponk, Albert (which is also available on Apple TV), and Atom Run, mix creativity with interaction, resulting in a diverse range of experiences that share a bond of warmth and joy.

It’s not surprising that Fingerlab make tools for creatives as well as games: Apps for making music such DM1, DFX, and Rockmate; tools for filmography such as iMotion; and even Musyc – an app that uniquely blends visual and aural exploration.

Yuri is yet another example of the studio’s penchant for fusing art and gameplay, conjuring a 2D action platformer that ranges from fast and furious, to whimsical dreamscape.

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Distant and Where Cards Fall – Snowman Bringing New Games to Apple TV

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Studio Snowman found success on mobile with its hypnotic endless snowboarder, Alto’s Adventure. So much so that a sequel – Alto’s Odyssey – is in the works. The team must be pretty busy then, as apart from the sequel to the game that built Snowman, there are two more titles being worked on, both of which are heading to Apple TV.

Hit the page 2 button below for a sneak peak at Distant, and Where Cards Fall (being developed in collaboration with new studio The Game Band).

PS4 and Xbox One Games You Can Play on Apple TV 4K with a Controller 

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You might be unboxing your shiny new fifth generation Apple TV this weekend – the Apple TV 4K. Happy days. You might have even heard or read that there are some excellent console gaming experiences to be had on the platform with a controller, so you went the extra mile and picked one up to go with your purchase.

You’ve unboxed, plugged in, set up, and paired your controller. Now what? Where are these games?

Unfortunately Apple isn’t doing a great job of curating the gaming section on Apple TV’s App Store, and unless you know the specific games you’re searching for, it can be hard ploughing through the countless iOS ports of one touch auto-runners and shovel ware. Where are the big, traditional video games, the ones you bought your controller to play – the platformers, shooters, and adventures?

We’ve put together a list to get you started. The first list of games over on page 2 are all available on PS4, Xbox One, or both. It’s not a definitive list, but it’s an excellent place to start.

There are also a lot of iOS ports that have been freed from the confines of mobile screens and touch controls, and actually feel much more at home on the digital-only console of Apple TV with a controller in hand. We’ve included a selection of these over on page 2 as well. You can also check out this list of the best titles from the platform’s first year of life, some of which have made it onto today’s selection.

We’re optimistic here at ATVG that with the power under the hood of the Apple TV 4K, and the announcement of the upcoming Sky, gaming on this fledging platform might have a bright future.

Have fun!

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Morphite Gameplay Trailers Showcase Alien Wildlife, Resources and Space Exploration

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Update: Morphite is out now on Apple TV, PS4, Xbox One, PC, and iOS. The Nintendo Switch version is coming in Q4 2017. Enjoy!

Original Story: Sometimes showing is better than telling, and this series of new gameplay trailers for upcoming Morphite do exactly that. And when I say upcoming, I mean in two days time.

We’ve been following this collaboration between Blowfish Studios, We’re Five Games, and Crescent Moon Games for a while now, ever since CMG’s Josh Presseisen showed off Morphite’s gameplay on an iPhone to Toucharcade. While Morphite looks like a nice addition to your pocket gaming options, its scope looks like something that big flat screens might be well suited for. On September 21st it’ll be your choice, as it hits Apple TV, PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Steam, and iOS all at once.

Hit the page 2 button to see some space exploration, resource collection, and alien life forms being scanned and blasted to smithereens.